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UK museums digitizing 70 million specimens using AI technology

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  • More than 70 million animal, plant, fossil and rock specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum.
  • Robots and AI are being used to scan and analyse specimens, speeding up digitisation from hundreds of years to a decade.
  • The digital museum will help researchers understand how the UK has changed over the planet's entire history and predict future climate and species changes.
How AI is creating a UK super-museum and revealing our planet's history

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